Dan Sinh – Vietnam will have 50,000 – 100,000 human resources in the semiconductor industry by 2030

The conference identified that the semiconductor industry is the nucleus of the electronics industry. From 2001 to 2021, the global semiconductor industry grew 14% per year, reaching nearly $600 billion in revenue by 2023.

The semiconductor industry is expected to continue to grow strongly, reaching 1,000 billion USD by 2030.

In the trend of supply chain diversification and complicated geopolitical developments in the world, semiconductor industry enterprises have been shifting to Asian countries to locate headquarters and factories.

Vietnam has a number of key advantages to affirm that it is ready for the semiconductor industry such as: high political determination; favorable investment and business environment; quality workforce; has comprehensive strategic partnerships with most countries with developed semiconductor industries.

With the above context and advantages, Vietnam has a great opportunity to participate in the global semiconductor industry value chain.

To grasp and realize this opportunity, Vietnam needs to quickly deploy it within a period of no more than 24 months and focus on 3 core contents: perfecting specific mechanisms and policies to ensure competition with other countries. countries in the region; Synchronize infrastructure of electricity, water, transportation, fiber optic cable, and information technology; develop high quality human resources for the industry.

To develop high-quality human resources for the semiconductor industry in a short time, delegates said that we should take advantage of the existing foundation of training facilities; teaching staff; human resources in information technology, electronics… for additional training in semiconductor technology; At the same time, forming specialized research centers, faculties, institutes and laboratories in the field of semiconductor technology.

Delegates also proposed mechanisms and policies to train and attract human resources to serve the semiconductor industry; develop supporting industries for the semiconductor industry; tasks of the Government, ministries, branches, localities, training facilities, businesses… to create a breakthrough in developing human resources to serve the semiconductor industry.

Delegates said that, with high determination, Vietnam can meet the human resource requirements for the semiconductor industry.

At the Conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the straightforward, enthusiastic, responsible, realistic and feasible opinions of the delegates; emphasized that developing the semiconductor industry is the country’s strategic choice.

Also according to the Prime Minister, to develop the semiconductor industry, 5 pillars are needed, including the pillar of human resources. The Party and State have many guidelines and policies on comprehensive development of human resources, science, technology, and innovation and are being implemented effectively.

In particular, Conclusion No. 64-KL/TW dated October 18, 2023 of the 8th Conference of the Central Executive Committee term XIII requested “Focus on training 50,000 – 100,000 high quality human resources for the manufacturing industry semiconductor chips to 2025 and 2030”.

The Prime Minister has issued the Strategy for developing science, technology and innovation until 2030, identifying the semiconductor industry as a priority high-tech industry. The Government assigned relevant ministries and branches to coordinate in developing a project to develop human resources in the semiconductor industry until 2030; Build the Vietnam Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy until 2030.

Vietnam has established the National Innovation Center (NIC) and many centralized information technology parks are operating, expected to be the nucleus to promote innovation, creativity and development of the semiconductor industry; Many information technology businesses are oriented to develop in this field, and can coordinate and support human resource training as well as use the human resources of these businesses.

Notably, currently, our country has about 240 universities, of which nearly 160 have specialized technical training, capable of converting to train semiconductor human resources; There are 35 training facilities training in fields related to the semiconductor industry.

Over the past 20 years, Vietnam has trained hundreds of thousands of programmers and millions of information technology workers, this is an important basis for affirming the ability to train 50,000 – 100,000 workers in the semiconductor industry by 2030. .

To achieve the goal of training 50,000 – 100,000 human resources to serve the semiconductor industry, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requires ministries, branches, localities, training establishments, and businesses to consider developing human resources for the semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry is a breakthrough in human resource training and requires investment to match this breakthrough; diversifying types of training; diversify resources, promote public-private cooperation to develop human resources for the semiconductor industry.

The Prime Minister believes that, with the participation of the entire political system, the support and participation of people, businesses, investors, the support of international friends and with specific actions, Fundamental, scientific, drastic, focused and focused, Vietnam will complete the goal of training 550,000 – 100,000 human resources for the semiconductor industry by 2030.